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“I love you.” I never remembered who said it first, but the moment when we exchanged that simple phrase will forever be ingrained in my memory. I was only 4, but I knew that at that moment, what I had said was true. Later, I would look back and wonder if I had even a sliver of an idea of what I was talking about, but 4 year old me felt certain. With this newfound love, we were inseparable. I have pictures of me and him with linked arms at the 50’s party; we were always together, and he was probably...
Submitted to Contest #58
Even as I was sitting there, I could feel myself going numb. Tuning out all of the beeps that are in the hospital, squeezing my eyes shut so that I did not see the nearly lifeless body in front of me. The body of the one who gave me life. The one who nurtured me, and taught me, the one who was always there for me. My mom. With my head in my hands and my eyes tightly closed, I tried to imagine what life was like before. When my mom wasn’t in the hospital, and she was fussing over me. When we would take long walks on the beach and have ou...
Submitted to Contest #56
I hated that every morning I woke up to yelling. It is the worst way to start your day. Try as I might to make it disappear, it never did. I was stuck with it. As everyone from my bus drifted into Salem Middle School, I scanned the crowded hallways and cafeteria for my friend Felicity Lambert, but soon I was scrawled across the floor, not having noticed the foot that was all too willing to trip me. I scrambled to pick up my things before everything got crushed in the stampede that is middle school when I heard my name being called. “A...
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